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    Managed to glue up the central pieces. It's a bit cool here at present so will leave it overnight to be sure.

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    Might have a go at making another float in the meantime.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Labr,

    Your making some serious progress, I think you may be the only true Laminated design plane.
    I think [emoji6].

    Keep up the good work.

    Cheers Matt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Simplicity View Post
    you may be the only true Laminated design plane.
    Matt, I reckon the one by Bellbodyboards is laminated but I haven't noticed any others.

    I spent the last couple of days gluing up the laminations on mine one at a time. There was slight bowing on some pieces and previous experience tells me that clamps can deal with this one layer at a time but not multiple.

    So here is the glued up body that I can cut the final shape from. The pencil lines at top and right are at the required skew angle of 20 degrees.

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    I suspect that there will be a lot more fettling than previously expected because most of the joints have very slight misalignments.

    Have had a few ideas about handles but will wait until the body shape has been rough cut before deciding.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Lost some time (and money of course ) to an emergency vet visit today but still managed some progress.

    Hot glued the assembly to a piece of thin ply so it had a straight edge to run along the bandsaw fence. Took a slice off each side and it turned out reasonably well. The cuts are pretty straight as shown by the steel rule and bench top.
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    There is just 1 significant ridge on each side where the blade went into air in the corners made by the staggering of the pieces.

    P1110351 [800x600].jpgP1110358 [800x600].JPG

    Also cut 1 end off square with a pull saw and that was it for today..

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    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Labr.

    This is looking very interesting can’t wait for more progress.

    Cheers Matt.

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    Now I see what you're up to. Very clever creating the skew with the angled glue up!

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    This is the most laminated plane I have seen. Except one where that guy made a plane out of plywood.

    You might as well call this "The Laminator"

    Hasta la vista, endgrain!

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    OK, so it's out with "Floatie" and in with "The Laminator" for a name.

    Spent the last couple of days squaring things up, interior fettling and working on a handle idea. Still have a slight rock when the plane is placed on the shooting board - and unfortunately it's not the board's fault so there is still some work to do on that.

    The aims of the handle design are to give a comfortable grip while allowing control in what I consider the important dimensions. That is forward/backward, rotation about the longitudinal axis and rotation about the vertical axis. This allows the plane to be held firmly against the workpiece while taking cuts. The only problem is that the handle looks rather curvy whereas the plane body is all straight surfaces so they seem to clash fairly seriously. Maybe I'll get used to it.

    Originally intended to glue the handle on but am now leaning toward screws going into thread inserts.

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    Also been thinking about adding a metal button on the rear end for the knockometer to strike when backing off the blade. Does anyone know how thick these normally were and how they were attached?
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    The name is whatever you want to give. But it seems there is a consensus that the planes should have a nickname. Anyway up to you.

    The plane looks really good. I like the handle. If you think it clashes with the boxy shape of the plane body I can see that there is enough room to also add some curves to the body without interfering with it's function.

    I have seen people using the head of carriage bolts for the strike button.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cklett View Post
    The name is whatever you want to give. But it seems there is a consensus that the planes should have a nickname. Anyway up to you.


    I like "The Laminator"; even if it does sound like something you'd find in an abattoir...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chief Tiff View Post


    I like "The Laminator"; even if it does sound like something you'd find in an abattoir...
    Ha! We've had so many plane related puns in this challenge I had to stop and think before getting that.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Quote Originally Posted by labr@ View Post
    Ha! We've had so many plane related puns in this challenge I had to stop and think before getting that.
    Sorry was that getting it or gutting it.[emoji6]

    Cheers Matt.

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    Took a few swipes on the shooting board without the handle and found that although it did take some form of shaving they were not so good and it also seemed to clog. So I did some more fettling inside including tapering the front of the abutments to give clearance for the shavings to exit. It still needs some smoothing/cleaning up but the functionality is better.
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    Also attached the handle and did final shaping of the wedge. The handle is quite comfortable and makes the plane controllable.
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    Tried it on some blackwood end grain:
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    And Oregon side grain:
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    So it works better than any other plane I've tried on the shooting board but it could still be better. More attention to sharpening could be part of the equation and I reckon the shooting board could be better too.

    The ends of the body are still to be finished, corners to be softened and there is some tearout on the top that may just have to remain - I don't want to remove that much material now.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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    Quote Originally Posted by labr@ View Post
    shaving they were not so good and it also seemed to clog.
    It took me a couple of hours slowly opening the throat, behind the mouth, of my plane just removing enough to let the chips flow while keeping it as tight as possible. Thats one area of plane construction that rarely seems to get mentioned.
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    Interesting you say that Tony - in the process of squaring up the throat on mine I would have opened it up a bit so that may well have been a contributing factor.
    Cheers, Bob the labrat

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